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Ibrahim Hakki Guntay, general manager, Turkish Airlines, Western & Southern India, likes to be discreet, especially on social media. He admits that he likes to see but not be seen. “I like social media, but I prefer to use a generic fake account,” he says. “I don’t use my name, I don’t publish anything about myself and I have zero tweets. I would post frequently earlier, but as I get older, I want to do it less now.”

He currently uses it more as a consumption device, following people like Elon Musk.

“I follow him, but I don’t necessarily like him,” he jokes, adding that the people he does like include golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as well as information driven handles such as Futurism and Spectator Index.

While Guntay may be a fan of social media, one thing he isn’t a fan of is the television. He hasn’t had a TV set at home for years. “We just use the TV as a screen, and we already have so many of those around us.

I don’t want one more in my house. I also don’t want to watch what someone else is making me watch; we have a lot of options and people are choosing their own content now,” he says.

To Err Is Human: Elon Musk And Other Famous People Who Messed Up On Social Media

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Privacy Woes

28 Dec, 2017

MS Dhoni
The former captain cool lost his cool last year when his Aadhar details were erroneously leaked online after the Common Services Center's official Twitter handle shared a photo of MS Dhoni's Aadhar application form. In fact, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had liked the tweet too, without noticing that Dhoni's personal details had been made public. He also tweeted a photo of Dhoni giving his bio-metric details to a representative.

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Bruised Apple

28 Dec, 2017

iPhone leak
Apple may be the best at making phones, but it's certainly not the best at tweeting. The tech giant's Twitter handle accidentally leaked the announcement of the iPhone 7 ahead of time. Just as the launch began, Apple tweeted-"The new water-resistant iPhone 7. Learn more at apple.com/iPhone 7." The first tweet was sent out at 6.01 pm, just after the event had kicked off, but before the iPhone had actually been unveiled on stage by Tim Cook. It was followed by a series of promoted tweets that revealed the new iPhone 7 features. The tweet also linked to a website that had not yet been set live.

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Let There Be Light

28 Dec, 2017

Piyush Goyal
In August this year, Union Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted the government's achievement of illuminating 50,000 km of Indian roads with LED lights. Except for one problem: the image used in the tweet was from Russia. The minister quickly deleted the tweet and responded – "Thanks to many who pointed issues with earlier image. While we illuminate streets, social media helps illuminate facts, helping us improve."

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Misfire Message

28 Dec, 2017

Anthony Noto, CFO, Twitter
The Twitter CFO slipped up and tweeted a message to all his followers that was supposed to be a direct message. In what appeared to be a hiring strategy, Noto's tweet read – "I still think we should buy them. He is on your schedule for Dec 15 or 16—we will need to sell him. I have a plan." The post deleted within minutes, but not before it was screengrabbed by some his savvy 8,700 followers.

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